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Regional funding negotiations - Green groups warn against last minute reintroduction of fossil fuel subsidies

May 16, 2013

With the final negotiations aimed at sealing agreement on the EU budget for 2014-20 now underway, environment NGOs are warning that a last minute amendment aimed at permitting EU subsidies for fossil fuels that are devastating for the climate must be rejected by negotiators of the future EU Cohesion Policy’s regional development funds.

Institution: EU Funds

Theme: Energy & climate

Tags: Cohesion Policy, ERDF, fossil fuels, gas, trialogue, EU

Oil for nothing: European energy security endangers livelihoods in Nigeria

Genady Kondarev
Energy campaigner, Bulgaria

February 8, 2012

A documentary exposes the practices and disastrous local impacts of oil extraction by European energy companies in Nigeria. Food for thought for ourselves and our political representatives at national and European level.

Tags: development  energy security  EU  flaring  fossil fuels  gas  local impacts  oil  EU  Global South 

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Theme: Energy & climate, Social & economic impacts

Location: Nigeria

Tragedy or comedy, what is the Nabucco pipeline really?

Laszlo Fazekas
Energy campaigner in Hungary

January 19, 2012

The announcement of German energy giant RWE to reconsider its plans for the Nabucco pipeline is just the last in a series of confusingly conflicting signals regarding the fate of this gargantuan project.

Tags: climate targets  democracy  energy security  fossil fuels  gas  human rights  infrastructure  pipeline  Balkans  Caucasus  CEE  Central Asia 

Institution: EBRD, EIB, World Bank Group

Theme: Energy & climate, Social & economic impacts, Other harmful projects

Location: Turkmenistan, Hungary

Project: Nabucco gas pipeline

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